NEWS
Executive Internship applications now available
Program pairs students
with staff members to
compiete projects
Junie Burke
and Morgan Collins
Contributors
@elonnewsnetwork
The Executive Internship at
Elon University, created in 2011,
is intended to showcase some
of Elons most driven students.
Applications for the 2017-2018
cohort are due Feb. 20.
The 2016-2017 academic year
program’s participants includes
juniors and seniors of a variety of
majors and career interests. The
program allows these students
to gain experience and practice
alongside some of Elon’s senior
staff members. Last year, 60 stu
dents applied to be a part of the
11-student program.
Senior Emma Warman, who
was accepted into the program last
spring, said she first heard about
the program from a fellow tour
guide who highly recommended
the program to her.
She said she used the internship
as a way to leave her mark on Elon.
“Spring of my junior year, I had
just come back from abroad, and
I was looking for a way to make
lasting change on this campus,”
Warman said. “I saw this oppor
tunity as a really good way to do
so. It was my desire to make a tan
gible change on campus and give
back to Elon before graduating.”
After the application and
selection process, the chosen
interns are honored at the Annual
Internship Breakfast in May.
Each intern is assigned a “place
ment,” which can be in one of a
wide arrangement of categories,
including: Office of the President,
Office of the Provost, Associate
Provost for Inclusive Community,
Associate Provost for Faculty Staff
Affairs, University Advancement,
Business, Technology, and
Finance, Student Life, Admissions
and Financial Planning, University
Communications, Athletics, the
Center for Access and Success, the
College of Arts and Sciences and
the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and
Diversity Education.
The interns then begin a year
of involvement, beginning the fall
semester of their selected year,
when they attend orientation and
meet their supervisors. During
this semester, interns can spend
between two to four hours every
week brainstorming possible ideas
and goals for what they plan to
accomplish during Winter Term,
when most of their work is con
ducted.
When January rolls around,
interns work with their supervi
sors every week on their assigned
projects. During this time, interns
can conduct research and work
with members of Elon’s staff to
gain communication skills.
During their spring semester,
interns begin presenting projects
to several committees or special
ized teams and finish any educa
tional requirements. The Board
of Trustees meeting in the spring
is also a valuable opportuni
ty for Executive Interns to make
an appearance alongside several
influential Elon figures. When the
application process begins again,
current interns play a part in the
intern selection process.
The confidentiality agreement
proved to be a way for Warman to
grow closer with the senior staff
“The level of trust between [the
Executive Interns] and the senior
staff is just so flattering,” Warman
said.
Gregory Nantz ’14, who was an
Executive Intern, agreed.
“The Executive Internship is
great preparation for those inter
ested in education policy or man-
The 2016-2017 executve interns pose for a selfie after working. The 2017-2018 Executive internship application is due Feb. 20.
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HOW TO APPLY
Requirements:
1) Applicants must be rising juniors or seniors in good academic and judicial standing.
2) Applicants must be available to work full-time on campus during Winter Term.
3) Applicants must demonstrate ability to maintain confidentiality.
4) Applicants must complete the general background section, list three professional references
(including one faculty member] and answer two short-answer questions.
5) Applicants must separately submit a one-page resume and a one-page cover letter explaining
their interest in the program to executiveintems(5)elon.edu.
Due Date: Monday, Feb. 20 at 5:00 p.m.
To apply, visit the Elon hompage and search “Executive Internship. ” Select the first page, and
click the “Apply” tab.
agement, planning and leader
ship more generally,” Nantz said.
“The mentor-mentee relationship
between leaders of the university
and interns is one of the greatest
strengths of the program.”
The internship also taught
Warman about the way decisions
are made at Elon, and she said it
was an intense operation.
“There are so many flow charts
of leadership and decision-mak
ing and planning for the tiniest
things on this campus,” Warman
said. “Elon is such a student-cen
tered university, and that carries
through every level of the process
of planning at the school.”
Delays keep textbooks out of classes’ 1st week
Textbook arrivals delayed
during 1st week of spring
semester elasses
Liam Collins
Contributor
@Liam Collins7
It’s been more than a week since spring
semester began at Elon University^ but
many students are still having issues getting
their books in time to complete assign
ments for classes.
It’s a result of a new book-ordering sys
tem, implemented last fall. The new system
moved textbooks to a warehouse on South
Church Street to make room on the sec
ond floor of the bookstore for more Elon
gear, according to Barnes & Noble Store
Manager Carly Mayer.
Before this change, textbooks were
located on the second floor of the book
store, available for students to either order
ahead of time and pick up or pick up with
no previous order.
Now, all of the textbooks have moved to
a warehouse on South Church Street. The
change in the system came when the store
noticed that 85 percent of students ordered
their textbooks ahead of time.
But the new system is proving to be a bit
of an issue to some students, such as sopho
more Claudia Mortati, whose textbook was
backordered for the entire week.
“It’s been kind of stressful to have to
do all my readings on the internet and to
have people sending me photos of textbook
pages,” Mortati said. “It’s just unnecessarily
complicated when I could just be ... getting
finished.”
The delay in textbooks hasn’t only
proved to be an issue for students. In some
classes, more than half of students still don’t
have their textbooks in the first week. This
delay causes professors, such as Anthony
Hatcher, associate professor of communica
tions, to improvise on lesson plans.
“I think a week’s delay is about as much
as I can do,” Hatcher said. “Otherwise, we’re
pushing necessary knowledge, definitions,
terminology ... background, history, con
text — all of those things are being delayed
because not everyone has a textbook.”
The bookstore processes more than
2,500 textbooks in two weeks for pick-up,
with a typical one-day wait time for stu
dents, according to Mayer.
“I just want to make clear that back-
Elon’s Barnes & Noble store has moved textbook orders to a warehouse on South Church Street.
orders are orders where we didn’t have the
book at the time we fulfilled the order, so
it went on backorder,” Mayer said. “But
there’s a difference between that and then
orders that just aren’t ready for pick-up
yet.”
Overall, Mayer said that productivity
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and manpower from employees has not
been the cause of the delay, stating that the
bookstore “is in better shape with back
orders than they’ve been in [her] tenure”
at Barnes & Noble and that she is “proud
of the work that [her] team has done to
accomplish that.”